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ORSANIZAriON, 



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Society of VGrnr^oi^ters. 



RECORD 



OF ITS ORGANIZATION AND DINNER, 



Aarchi A\\\, 1591. 



Together witl^ its Coristitutiori, Officers, 
Aerr^bers ar\d tf\e Addresses. 



BROOKLYN, NEW YORK. 






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Kacii.k Fkkss, Bkooki.vn, N. Y. 



OFFICERS 



Drooklyn Oociety of \/ ern\or[\er5, 



ELECTED MARCH 4, 1891. 



President, . . . . Robert D. Benedict 

Vice-President, . . . . ("hari.es A. Tinker 
Secretary and Treasurer, - - Roi'.i-.k r [. Kimham, 



Executive CorT]rT^ittee. 

Col. N. T. Si'RAGUE, Chairman. 
Ai.iiERr 15. Chandler, Saneord H. Steele, 

(1eor(;e r>. .\i;iioi I, J. H. Flagg, 

ANK TIIK 

President, Vice-President and Secretary, Ex-officio. 



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E. N. Taft. 


Rev. Dr. HUMl'STONE. 


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George G. Ward. 


ALONZO ALKOKI). 


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W. Harkness. 


J.J. Allen. 


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Hon. Geo. B. Abbott. 


E. A. Pk.\ IT, 


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Hon. W. Bartle IT. 


H.AMILTON ORMSBE. 


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Frank Brady. 


A. J. Howard. 


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George H. Fletcher. 


Mr. Rockwell. 


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R. C. Allen. 


Ch.\rles a. Hoyt. 


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J. C. Allen. 


Albert E. Ch.\ndlek. 


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W. H. Colton. 


Frank W. Chandler. 


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A. Tinker. 


\V. E. Kimball. 


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A. L. Tinker. 


Dr. Ramsdell. 


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0. F. Hibbard. 


R. I. Pierson. 


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R. H. Newhall. 


H. Titus. 


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L. Titus. 


Dr. H. C. Matthews. 


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F. E. Titus. 


W. I. RRIN.SMADE. 


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G. C. Brainerd. 


Col. J. H. Platt. 


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H. F. Holden. 


p. L. Watson. 


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C. E. Stearns. 


S. L. Hutchinson. 


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Gkokce H. Kelley. 


George A. White. 


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R. M. Dow. 


Jesse Johnson. 


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W. E. Andrews. 


T. C. Cronin. 


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James Brady. 


W. C. Spelman. 


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B. H. Allen. 


J. G. Marshall. 


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George Follett. 


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Joseph Babcock. 


L. K. Barnes. 


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Thomas Bishop. 


H. E. Hutchinson. 


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B. L. Benedict. 


J. H. Brewer. 


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THE BROOKLYN 
SOCIETY OF VERmONTERS. 



TiiK l>R(t()Ki.\N S()Cii;i\' oi Vi:km< IN ri:Rs was 
organized on March 4, 1891. at tlie house of the 
Union League Chib of Brooklyn, with a member- 
ship of 40. The day was the looth anniversary 
of tlie admission of Vermont to the United States, 
and that event was celebrated by a dinner, with 
addresses. The formation of such a society had 
been first suggested at an informal meeting of a 
few natives of V^ermont at the residence of Col. 
Robert ). Kimball, 436 Clinton avenue, on Feb- 
ruary 23. A committee wds aj)[)ointed at that 
meeting to consider the celebration of Vermont's 
centennar\- ami the formation of a society of Ver- 
monters resitiing in Brookl}'n. The members of 
this committee were as follows : 

RoBEk r 1). IliNKDK r, ['RANK H. Chandler, 

ALHEKr II. C'lIANDLKR, .SaNKOKI) H. STEELE, 

Charles A. Tinker, Roi;ert J. Kimball. 

This committee called a meeting at the office 
of Frank II. Chandler, 300 l^^ilton street, on 
February 26, sending invitations to all the natives 
of Vermont in the city whose names they could 



obtain. The following gentlemen responded to 
the invitation: Sanford H. Steele, H. R. Steele, 
Albert B. Chandler, Frank H. Chandler, Robert 
J. Kimball, Charles A. Tinker, N. T. Sprague, 
Benjamin H. Dewey, M. A. Dewey, Omri F. 
Hibbard, F. S. Blinn, C. T. White, F. B. John- 
son, A. R. Johnson, W. H. Cotton, J. J. Allen, 
Rev. T. P. Frost, James Brady, R. I. Pierson, L. 
K. Barnes. 

Sanford H. Steele was chosen Chairman of the 
meeting and Robert J. Kimball, Secretary. On 
motion of Frank H. Chandler, it was voted to 
celebrate the Vermont Centennary, and a Com- 
mittee of Arrangements was appointed, consisting 
of Col. N. T. Sprague, Chairman; Robert J. Kim- 
ball and Charles A. Tinker. It was also voted to 
organize a society of Vermonters in Brooklyn, 
and the following Committee of Organization was 
appointed to prepare a Constitution and By-laws 
for the society : Charles A. Tinker, Albert B. 
Chandler, and Robert J. Kimball. 

As soon as this intention became known in 
the city the names of applicants for membership 
came in rapidly to the committee, and on the 
night of the dinner, 70 Vermonters gathered at 
the Union League Club. The dinner was preceded 
by a brief meeting for organization, at which Col. 
N. T. Sprague, Chairman of the Committee of 
Arrangements, was made Chairman, and Robert 
J. Kimball, Secretary. 

The following resolution was adopted : 



A'tsi'hri/, 'I'liat we, \'crmniii( is hew |)rcscnl, on 
this centennial anniversary of tlie aclniission of Ver- 
mont into tlie Union, to acknowledi^e our love and 
fidelity to iier, and to periietuate her memory to 
tiiose who come after us, do form ourselves into an 
association to be called tiie " Brooklyn Society of 
Vermonters." 

The following named persons were present and 
took part in the proceedings organizing tlie 
Association, to wit : George B. Abbott, Alonzo 
Alford, Rev. J. C. Allen, J. J. Allen, R. C. Allen, 
W. E. Andrews, C. G. Atwood, J. M. Babcock, 
L. K. Barnes, B. Lincoln Benedict, Robert D. 
Benedict, Thomas Bishop, James Jirady, William 
Brinsmaid, Albert B. Chandler, Albert E. Chand- 
ler, Frank II. Ciiandler, P^ank VV. Chandler, VV. 
H. Cotton, C. II. Cutting, Benjamin H. Dewey, 
M. A. Dewey, Francis M. Edgerton, Geo. Follett, 
Omri F. Ilibbard. Charles A. Hoyt, A. T. How- 
ard, Jesse Johnson, Brainard Kellogg, Robert J. 
Kimball, Wm. Eugene Kimball, Dr. Henry C. 
Matthews, R. W. Newhall, Hamilton Ormsbee, 
R. I. Pierson, Dr. W. F. Ramsdell, VV. C. Spel- 
man, Col. N. T. Sprague, Charles A. Tinker, 
Arthur L. Tinker, L. Titus, Henry Titus, Pres- 
cott L. Watson, G. A. White. The association 
duly elected its ofificers, whose names are jirintcd 
elsewhere. 

After the business meeting the compan)- was 
summoned to the dining-room and seated at the 
table in the order indicated by the diagram on 
another page. 



The menu card bore the Vermont coat of arms 
and the Vermont motto, " Freedom and Unity." 
The bill of fare was as follows : 

MENU. 



OYSTERS. 

SOUPS. 
Consomme Printaniere. Cream of Celery. 

Small Patties a la Princess. 

FISH. 

Boiled Striped Bass a la Chambord. 
Potatoes. 

RRLEVE. 

Capon Braise a 1' Ancienne. 

String Beans. 

ENTREE. 

'J'enderloin of Beef a la Richelieu. 

Green Peas. 

Orange Ice. 

ROAST. 
Plover on Toast au Cresson. Lettuce Salad. 

Petit Flap-Jacks a la Green Mountains. 
Brattleboro Maple Syrup. 

Iced Cream in Form. Assorted Cake. Fruit. 

Crackers. Randolph Butter. Cheese. 

Coffee. 
March 4, 1891. 



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ADDRESS OF ROBERT D. BENEDICT. 

After the dinner had been eaten, Mr. Bene- 
dict calletl for the attention of the guests, and 
spoke as follows : 

Gentlemen and Brother Vermonters — -One hun- 
dred years ago to-day occurred the event which we, 
as Sons of Vermont, are gathered to-night to cele- 
brate. We celebrate il in the way which has be- 
come ajipropriale for such celebrations ; first, by a 
moderate and cheerful feast, and then by varied 
speech in which we shall stir up our minds by way 
of remembrance, and e.vpress to each other ap[^ropri- 
ate congratulations. There are those who, listening 
to the tone of speech which prevails upon such occa- 
sions, are somewhat disposed to sneer and to make 
remarks about "mutual admiration" and " boastful- 
ness." Let us jniy no heed to such carpers. W'e are 
children of one family who have come together, not 
indeed under the famdy roof tree, but to renew the 
thoughts and feelings and associations which cluster 
around that roof-tree, beneath whit:h our youth was 
spent, and beneath which sits the mother of us all, 
still with all the freshness and beauty of youth u()on 
her. Why then, should we hesitate to speak freely to 
each other of her many excellences and virtues and to 
say, "Never man had a better mother than we had?" 

Vermont ! every fibre of my frame thrills as I 
speak her name. 

" I love her hills, 1 love her streams, 
Her blue lakes haunt my waking dreams ; 
When the morning shineth 
Or the day dec! i net h. 
Ever dear her memory seems." 



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And so it will be as long life shall last. And when 
1 shall have come to the end of life, I hope it may 
be my privilege to be laid to rest within her soil 
beneath the shadows of her murmuring pines, where 
the eyes of remembering friends 'may rest upon her 
solemn mountains, from whose peaks their thoughts 
may rise to those eternal verities whose steadfastness 
those mountains fitly symbolize. 

But it is not only because of her natural scenery, 
the beauties of her valleys and mountains, that we 
love Vermont. It is because of the character of the 
people who have found home among those moun- 
tains. 

" Two voices are there — one is of the sea, 
One of the mountains, each a mighty voice ; 
In each from age to age thou didst rejoice. 
They were thy chosen music, Liberty." 

That voice of the mountains has sunk deep into 
the hearts of the liberty-loving people of Vermont. 
It is the proud boast of England's judiciary that 
one of her judges declared that the soil of England 
could not bear the foot of a slave. With equal 
pride may Vermont point to her judge before whom 
a proceeding was brought to recover possession of a 
slave, and who, skilled in the trial of causes involv- 
ing land titles so frequent in a newly settled region, 
(in which each of the contesting parties sought to 
trace his title back to the grantee from the crown, 
who was spoken of as the original proprietor), and 
using the language of such causes, pierced the heart 
of the slavery controversy by deciding that the 
claimant, if he would succeed, must prove a deed 
from the " original proprietor," Ood Almighty. 



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It was by reason of tliis love of lil)erty among 
lit*r |)co|)U', and tluMr love for the Union, that in the 
great contest for liberty antl the saving of the Lhiion 
from destruction, Vermont, in i)ro])ortion to her pop- 
ulation, "had more of her sons killed in battle than 
any other Northern State, and gave to the cause of 
the Union more lives lost from all causes than any 
other State." 

I have not time to point to the i^osition of Ver- 
mont upon other vital questions of our national 
life. Where has there been one on which her posi- 
tion has been equivocal or doubtful ? 

In most of the contests for reforms which have 
succeeded, she has taken her place among the front 
ranks ; and in the contests for reforms which are 
yet to come, what better order could be given to 
the armies of reform than that which General 
Sedgwick gave, " Put the Vermonters ahead ! and 
keep the rest of the column well up." 

It is not therefore only for the natural beauties 
of hill and valley, lake and stream, that we love 
Vermont. It is because she is animated by a love 
for freedom and progress in right things, and 
because she has shown by the hundred years of her 
history, that she can be relied u|)on for the right 
in the struggles and strifes of the future. 

And It is not with a half-hearted affection that 
we love her. We should not be true sons of Ver- 
mont if it were. The men who founded the State 
were not half-hearted men. 'i'hey were not merely 
patriotic and brave men, not merely men of clear 
insight and of far-reaching views. They were men 
of determination, who knew what they wished to 



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accomplish, and went forward to it with their whole 
hearts. An incident in the life of Ethaa Allen 
occurs to me, one which I think is not generally 
known. I found it some time since in turning over 
a file of old newspapers (always to me an inter- 
esting occupation), and I tell it, although I must 
rely only on my memory for the details. It seems 
that some legal proceeding was pending against 
some relative of Ethan Allen, who had not taken 
as earnest a part in the cause of liberty . as some 
others had done. In that proceeding (probably be- 
cause Ethan Allen had set it on foot), this relative 
deemed it important to show that Ethan Allen was 
hostile to him. He, therefore, published in this news- 
paper several affidavits, among which was one in 
which deponent testified that, meeting Ethan Allen 
he had mentioned the fact of having recently seen 
this aforesaid relative, whereupon the said Ethan 
Allen (I trust you will excuse the language. It is 
the language of Ethan Allen, and we all know that 
he wasted no time in measuring his words), replied, 
" You saw him ? Well, how was he, d — n his luke- 
warm soul." 

That expression, gentlemen, characterizes not only 
the man who spoke it, but the men of Vermont. 
With them "lukewarm souls" found no favor. And 
in our affection for Vermont we are no lukewarm 
souls. We love her with all our hearts. 

I esteem it a great compliment that I have 
been called to preside over this organization of the 
Sons of Vermont on this occasion. 

For us who are Vermonters this is the last of 
the long line of the Centennial celebrations which 



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have niarkt'd in succession ihc various staji;es in 
that series of events which "made us a nation." It 
celebrates the time when Vermont first stood up as 
one among her sister States, no longer in solitary 
independence, but in thai more perfect Union for 
the estabUshmcnt of wtiicli the Constitution of tiie 
United States was estabUshed. 

The 4th of March, one hundred years a<;o, made 
Vermont one of the United States, an intej^ral part 
of this great Nation, and it is proper that we should 
at the outset pay due respect to the Nation whose 
Hfe has pulsed through the veins of Vermont for 
the hist iumdreil years. 

I ask you, therefore, gentlemen, to rise ni your 
places and drink with me to the health and jirosper- 
ity of The President of the United States. 

The Ljuests rose and joined in the health 
proposed. 

Mr. Benedict then said : 

It is also appropriate th.\t, having t^iven a 
Iiealth to the representative of the National life, 
we should next pay our respects to the of^cer 
who represents the State, and I ask yi)u to rise 
and join me in a hcaltli to the Governor of the 
State of W'rmont. We slKtuld be t;lad if he 
were with us. In his absence you will be glad 
to hear a letter from him, which will be read 
by the Secretary. 

The Secretary, Col. Kimball, read the following 
letters and telegrams : 



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FROM GOVERNOR PAGE. 



State of Vermont, 
Executive Department, 



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Hyde Park, Vt., March 4, 1891. ) 



Col. R. J. Kimball, 

No. 436 Clinton Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Dear Col. Kimball — It is especially gratifying to 
those of us who are left behind, to know the deep 
feelings of loyalty to their native State, which Ver- 
monters are everywhere manifesting on the occasion 
of the one hundredth anniversary of Vermont's admis- 
sion to the Union. 

Minneapolis, Boston, and Providence, of the larger 
cities, will join with Brooklyn to-night in commem- 
orative exercises, while thousands upon thousands of 
Vermont's sons and daughters, scattered throughout 
the length and breadth of the land, will recall with 
deep emotions of patriotism the unblemished record 
their native State has made in the century which will 
close March 4th. That record will grow brighter and 
brighter as the years roll by, and may we not hope 
that the loyalty and devotion of Vermont's sons who 
have gone out from among us will increase from year 
to year as they rehearse the achievements of the 
century. 

I thank you for the honor you confer by inviting 
me to be with you in the festivities of your ban- 
quet, which I am sure cannot be other than a most 
enjoyable occasion, but prior engagements will pre- 
vent my attendance. 

Very cordially yours, 

CARROLL S. PAGE. 



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FROM SECRHTARY (W WAR PROCTOR. 

War Dki'artmknt, \ 

Office of thf, Skcrf:taky, l 

Washinm; ION. I). C".. March 2, 1S91. ) 

Dear S/r — I have the lionor to acknowied.t^e the 
receipt of your letter of February 27th, inviting me to 
attend tlie l)an(iuet to be given by the Vermonters 
of Brooklyn, to celebrate the one hundredth anniver- 
sary of the admission of V'ermont to tiie L'nion, on 
Wednesday evening, March 4th. 

1 am sorry that this meeting occurs on the day 
vviiich closes the session of Congress here, at 
which time, of course-, my official obligations require 
me to remain on dnl)- in Washington. It is always 
a pleasure ami a privilege to a son of \'ermont to 
participate in celebrating an occasion like this to do 
honor to his native State. Similar gatherings are 
to be held by Vermonters in many principal cities of 
the country ; and those who, like myself, cannot unite 
with their friends in celebrating this anniversary in 
some manner similar to this, envy those who can. 

I regret very much that the multitude of affairs 
which demand my attention just at this time, make 
it impossible for me to leave the city, and I am, 
therefore, unable to accei:)t your kind invitation. 

Hoping that the occasion may be an enjoyable one 
to all who jiarticipate, and thanking you again for 
the courtesy of your invitation, I am, 
^'()urs very truly, 

rf:dfikli) proctor. 

Mr. R. J. I\imi;ai,i., 

No. 16 Proad Street, New V^)rk, N. \' . 



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FROM ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF WAR GRANT. 

War Department, \ 

Office of the Assistant Secretary, v 

Washington, D. C, March 3, 1891. ) 

Col. N. T. Sprague : 

Dair .S/>—- Your kind invitation to be with the Sons 
of Vermont to-morrow evening is duly received, and 
answered by telegram. You know it would give me 
much pleasure to be present, but Congress will ad- 
journ to-morrow, and the Secretary is going away on 
Monday, and there is much to do just at this time. 

I promised the Vermont Veteran Association, of 
Boston, to meet with them to-morrow night, if I went 
anywhere, and I had but just telegraphed them 
that 1 could not come, when I received your tele- 
gram. I have declined similar invitations from Min- 
neapolis, Providence, Chicago and Boston. It is very 
gratifying to be thus remembered, and I am sorry 
that I am unable to attend any of the meetings. I 
am satisfied you will have a pleasant and profitable 
time, and I will think of you and give you my bene- 
diction. 

Truly yours, 

L. A. GRANT. 



FROM SENATOR EDMUNDS. 

Senate Chamber, 1 

Washington, D. C, February 28, 1891. f 

JDear Colonel Kimball — I have yours of the 27th, 
and thank you very much for kindly inviting me 
to attend your banquet in honor of Vermont's cen 
tennial year as a member of the Union. I regret 
extremely that it is absolutely impossible for me to 
have this pleasure, as I have made all arrangements 



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to go South with my family on tlie evenin.t,^ on 4II1 
of March, to be j^one a month. Wishing you all tvery 
felicity, both at your baiu|uct and at all times, I am, 
Very truly yours, 

(;i:(). V. EDMUNDS. 
RoiM. I. KiMB.M.L, Esq., 

No. 16 Broad Street, New York. 



FROM SENATOr^ MORRILL. 

Washington, D. C, March 3, 1891. 

/Jti7r Colonel Kiinhall — Your kind favor of the 2d 
inst. has been received, inviting me to be present at 
a banquet of the Brooklyn \'ernionters, on the even- 
ing of the 4th instant, and I regret that I sliall be 
unable to accept of the same. I feel sure that wher- 
ever a company of Vermonters a.ssemble they are 
always happy. 

I am too busy to write at more length. Thanking 
you for your attention, 1 am. 

Very truly yours, 

JUSTIN S. MORRILL. 
Mr. R. I. Ki.MK.ALi., 

New York. 

Telegrams of congratulation were read from the 
Sons of Vermont of Rhode Island, of Boston, from 
Col. VVhcelock G. Vcazcy, of the Interstate Com- 
merce Coninnssion, John V. llcnr\-a!id L 11. Fla<To- 

Mr. Ik-nedict resumed: 

Vermont is sometimes spoken of as being "the 
first child" (A the Union. Hut the Act of Con- 
gress admitting her to the Union was in the 

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following words: "The State of Vermont having 
petitioned the Congress to be admitted a member 
of the United States - * it is hereby enacted 
and declared that on the 4th day of March, 1791, 
the said State, by the name and style of ' the 
State of Vermont,' sii.ill be received and admit- 
ted into this Union, as a new and entire member 
of the United States of America." 

This language is more appropriate to the figure 
of marriage than to that of birth. But, by what- 
ever figure it may be described, I will ask our 
friend, Albert B. Chandler, to tell us something 
of the circumstances of the event. 

ALBERT B. CHANDLER'S ADDRESS. 

Mr. Chandler said : 

No doubt you are all familiar with the main 
features connected with the early history of our 
beloved Green Mountain State. But it seems fitting 
at this time to review the subject very briefly, and 
there are one or two points in particular to which 1 
invite your attention. I have only recently been im- 
pressed with a realizing sense of the comparative 
newness of the conditions existing in our native 
State, which during my youth, and long subsequently, 
I was accustomed to think of as having always 
existed. For more than a hundred years after the 
landing of the Mayflower, on the rocky coast of 
Massachusetts, the lovely region whicii we know as 
Vermont was in possession of its Indian owners, 
although very sparsely occupied, so far as we know, 
even by them. It is true that the beautiful Lake 



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C'haiiiiilain had hern discovtM'ed by tlif l'"i'ciu:li 
explorer, 1)\ w liosi' name it is now known, ni 1 6ovS — 
within a year ol the time that llendrick Hud- 
son lirst saded ui) the ^rand harbor which is now 
tlie [)ride ot" our twin cities, and discovered the 
river which bears his name. lUil no real seltU'- 
ment was made within the borders of \'ermont by 
the white rai-e until 1724, when I'Ort Dunimer was 
built on the Connecticut river not far from the 
present site of lirattleboro, this rei^ion l)ein^' then 
regarded as a part of Massachusetts. Ami it was 
nearly half a century later than this before any 
considerable progress had been made in the per- 
manent settlement of the hills and valleys which 
w'e love so well. The I'lrst settlers came cdiielly 
from Ivistern Massachusetts and (."onnecticut, where 
for more tiian a century tiiere had been throwing 
colonies and established i.>"overnment. In these days, 
when vast territories like Dakota, Montana and 
Washington are reclaimed from the wilderness and 
from savagery, and matle jiopulous, prosperous and 
fiill-lledged States within a period of hardly more 
than a tlozen years, notwithstantling their remote- 
ness from the civilization out of which their peopU' 
have been drawn, does it not seem strange that 
so goodly a land, within a hundred or two of miles 
from the long established honu's of the ancestors 
of those who went to take ptjssession of it, should 
have remanuMl for so many, many years, unoccupied, 
and almost unknown' ( )f course the difference is 
clear when we consider the ox team -the mud and 
corduroy— then sujipiying the only means of trans- 
portation — and the locomotive, with its roadway of 
steel, as in use to day. 



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The political history of Vermont is most remark- 
able, and very different from that of any other 
member of the union of States comprising our great 
Republic. Its real development began about the 
year 1760. Between that date and 1768, 138 town- 
ships had been granted within the present limits 
of the State, by Governor Wentworth of New Hamp- 
shire, who claimed jurisdiction and fee of the soil 
by virtue of the New Hampshire charter. In Decem- 
ber, 1763, the Governor of New York issued a 
proclamation claiming the territory under the grants 
from Charles II. to the Duke of York, and order- 
ing the Sheriff to make returns of the names of 
all settlers west of the Connecticut river under 
titles derived from New Hampshire. Govenor Went- 
worth issued a counter proclamation in March, 1774, 
declaring the claims of New York obsolete, and 
maintaining the jurisdiction of New Hampshire. 
New York appealed to King George, who granted 
that colony jurisdiction eastward as far as the 
Connecticut river. The New York Government then 
attempted to dispossess the settlers from their lands. 
This attempt was met with vigorous and organized 
resistance. Governor 'I'ryon of New York, in 1774, 
issued a formal command requiring Etlian Allen, 
Seth Warner, Remember Baker and five others to 
surrender themselves within thirty days, under pain 
of conviction of felony and punishment by death, 
without benefit of clergy, and offered a bounty of 
one hundred and fifty pounds for the capture of 
Allen, and fifty pounds for each of the others. The 
Vermont leaders responded by offering a reward for 
the apprehension of the Attorney-General of New 



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\'()rk. What would have l)cc'n tlie result of this 
controversy it tht- war witli l"".n<;hin(l had not oc- 
curred to demand the attention of New \'ork, New 
Hampshire and all the other c^olonies, nobody can 
conjecture. The behavior of the leading Vermonters 
in the circumstances next occurring' was manly, 
statesmen-like and patriotic to a det^ree which ex- 
cites our admiration and our jj^ratitude for such 
ancestry. 'I'hey promptly |ietitioned the I'rovincial 
Congress in session at Philadelphia, for admission 
into the newly formed confederacy of States. New 
York, still cherishing the hope that it might secure 
the territory to itself, opposed, and their petition 
was withdrawn. 

On the 17th of January, 1777, these wise and 
determined men, su!)ported by their brave and 
devoted followers, the " Green Mountain boys, " 
declared their independence, and formally "resolved 
that the territory known as The New Hampshire 
Grants should be thenceforth known and distin- 
guished by the name of New Connecticut." But, 
in June of that year the appropriate name of Ver- 
mont was adopted, having been suggested by Dr. 
Thomas Young, of Philadelphia, who was an intimate 
friend of Ethan Allen from his boyhood, the name 
being a contraction of the French name of the 
Green Mountains. 

In July, 1777, an application was again made to 
the Continental C'ongress for the admission of Ver- 
mont to the Confetleracy. Congress hesitated and 
temporized, and the peo])le be<'ame indignant. Pritish 
generals took advantage of this condition of affairs 
and endeavored to induce the Vermonters to declare 



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their allegiance to Great Britain ; but the tact and 
genuine statesmanship of Ira Allen, Thomas Chit- 
tenden and others, as well as the courage and 
determination of Ethan Allen and his noble fol- 
lowers, preserved the little principality in safety 
and in honor, to act an important and exceedingly 
helpful part in the Revolutionary struggle, and 
finally, after fourteen years of independence of all 
the world, to be received into the Union, just one 
hundred years ago this day, as the very first addi- 
tion to the thirteen original States. I am able to 
present to you a copy, made a few days ago, from 
the original Congressional records, showing tnat on 
the 9th of February, 1791, a message from the 
President of the United States informed the House 
of Representatives that he had received documents 
expressing the consent of the Legislatures of New 
York and the Territory of Vermont that the said 
Territory be admitted as a distinct member of the 
Union. On the 12th of February a message from 
the Senate informed the House that they had pass- 
ed a bill for the admission of the State of Ver- 
mont into the Union. On the 17th of February 
Mr. Sedgwick, from the Committee appointed for 
that purpose, presented a bill giving effect to the 
laws of the United States within the State of Ver- 
mont, which was read twice and committed. On 
the 19th the House resolved itself into a Com- 
mittee of the Whole on the bill giving effect to 
the laws of the United States within the State of 
Vermont. The Committee, after some time, rose 
and reported the bill to the House, with an amend- 
ment, which, being agreed to, the bill was ordered 



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t(i hi- iMi'^rosscil l(ir .i ihiid icailin^. I'hr House 
then wrnl into ,i ( 'ommitlrc ol the Whole on tlie 
bill r(.'L;u kiting the nuiiil)(.T ot npreseiUatives to be 
chosen b\ tln' States of Keiituckv and N'ennont. 
'l"he Coniniiltee rt'poitmn the bill to the I louse 
without anieiuliuent, on motion, it passed to its 
third reading. 

Mr. Cliandler then read transcripts from the 
records of tlie Senate and House of Rej:)resent- 
atives of IMarch 4th, 1791, reciting the passage of 
the act which admitted Vermont to the Union, 
and the mess.ige of President Washington con- 
vening tile Senate in special session in the Senate 
chamber, in Philadelphia, on that da\-, and nom- 
inating Nathaniel Chipman to be the first judge 
of the United States Court in that State; Stephen 
Jacobs, to be attorney for the United States in 
the district of Vermont ; Lewis R. Morris, to be 
marshal of the district of Vermont ; and Stephen 
Keyes, to be collector of the port of Alburgh. 

Mr. Chandler concluded : 

It is but just to state that the removal of the 
■ol)jections of New ^'ork to the admission of Ver- 
mont into the Union as a separate State, was not 
(jbtained until \'ermont had consented, for the sake 
of peace and hannony, anil for the security of its 
citizens in the possession of the lands wliieh they 
had purciiased, to the payment of thirty thousand 
dollars to the State of New York. 

The subsequent history of Vermont has been such 
as might have been expected from its honorable 



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birth and its sturdy growth up to the period of 
its statehood ; and its record in the war of the 
rebellion, from the firing of the first gun at Sum- 
ter until the close of that great conflict, shows that 
it brought one in ten of its entire population into 
the field, and that the conduct of its officers and 
soldiers throughout was no less creditable than that 
of their ancestry during the war of the revolution. 
Its civil government may justly said to have been, 
from the first, based upon principles of absolute 
equal rights before the law, and to have been so 
carried out in practice in an eminent degree. It 
has been, in fact, as well as in theory, " a govern- 
ment of the people, by the people, and for the 
people." Its citizens are best governed, largely be- 
cause they are least governed, of any under the 
sun, while its freedom from political corruption, in 
its legislature, its courts, and among its public 
officers, from the highest to the lowest, affords an 
example which, if successfully emulated by all our 
States and by our national government, would bring 
us almost within sight of the millennial day. 

At the conclusion of Mr. Chandler's remarks 
Mr. Benedict resumed : 

Gentlemen — Our next sentiment is, " Vermont 
one hundred years old." 

It would not be easy for any one to do full 
justice to that subject. Who could fitly portray 
for us what Vermont has been duVing that hun- 
dred years? Who could picture for us all the 
heights and depths, the heights of prosperity and 
patriotism, the depths of deprivation and toil 



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wliuli have Iklii llic wiiieil ixtiljoii ol her pco- 
l)lc .-' W'lio couKl i)i)rlr,i)' for us the hc.uitics ol 
Vermont hcisrlf, from Cmada lo the Massachu- 
setts line, and from tlie top of Mansheld Mountain 
to the Conneelieut Ri\er anil Lake Cliamplaiii r' 
Tlie man who would do that must needs have a 
"pencil toucheel with frost and fiie."' 

The Committee of Arrani^ements have done what 
they could. Tliey have .isked Mr. I^'rost to speak 
to us on the subject, and 1 think you will find 
that he will furnish the fire. 

I ha\e the pleasure of introducing;' to \'ou Rev. 
T. P. h'rost, of the Summerheld Methodist Church. 



REV. T. P. FROST'S ADDRESS. 

Mr. PkKsiDKNr .and CJrek.n Mouni ain IJovs — llie 
simple statement that 1 rei,^ard it an honor to speak 
in this place to-ni<jht, would feel)ly e.vpress my feel- 
ings. I only wish that 1 were able to do the occa- 
sion justice. 1 would rather be here than to have 
been with t^than Allen at 'Picouderoga. 'I'his is a 
safer place, and a greater age, and we are partakers 
of more sumptuous fare than that spread before 
the men whose deetls make it possible for us to 
celebrate this day. l''or these, and other reasons, 
we are glad that we tlid not live an hundr»;d years 
ago Wliile (jeneral IJurgoyne was making his sum- 
mer excursion through Pake Champlain with the 
purpose of culling off New ICngland from the West 
and South, ami thus bringing the conipiest of I lis 
Majesty's rebellious colonists in .America to a speedy 

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tcrniinalion, he wrote a letter to a frieiul bearing 
date August 20, 1777. In that letter were these 
words, " 'i'he Hampshire (Irauts in particular, a 
country unpeopled and almost unknown in the last 
war, now alxnnids in the most active and most rebel- 
lious race on the continent, and hangs like a gath- 
ering storm on my left." \Vith the change of a 
single word we can adopt unanimously this senti- 
ment of the ill-fated Briton, ^\'e freely concede that 
Vermonters were then, have since been, and to-day 
are " the most active and coura}:;i'oiis race on the 
continent." The gentleman who preceded me has 
graphically pictured the situation of the new State 
after its declaration of independence in January, 
1777. For fourteen years Vermont was an inde- 
pendent republic. It was only by great skill in 
diplomacy that the leaders of the Green Mountain 
Boys maintained that position against all foes. And 
there are autograph letters and other documents on 
file in the Canadian archives at Ottawa, which con- 
clusively show that if George Washington and his 
fellow patriots had suffered Ethan Allen and his 
friends to have their way, they would have annexed 
to Vermont all the territory between Lake Cham- 
l)lain and the North Pole, brought it into the Union 
with Vermont, and thus would have settled lorever 
the problem of Canadian annexation one hundred 
years ago to-day. If this is not a .correct inter- 
pretation of history the distinguished gentleman on 
my right, who will soon address you, will give you 
the unadulterated facts. Ijc this as it may, Ver- 
mont was subjectetl to a hard discipline during the 
first fourteen years of her existence. And yet dis- 



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cipliiu' (li'vclojis toiiL^li I'lhcr. It is liard discipline 
tor tlu' youii!; oak wliicli stands in the loiu- expos- 
ure of the opi-ii phiin to he biilfeted by the win- 
ter's lihists. I'.ut it" it iMKhn'es the orch'al, it roots 
deeper, sprt'ads wider, knits (doser and stands stronger 
tlian the graceful saphni;- protected hv the forest. 
So it is a cause of rejoieini;' to us who h»()k Ijack- 
ward an hunch'ed years that tlie youni; State was 
not enervated l)y patrona.!4;e, but forced to stand 
ah)ne and I)attle with a tempest of harassinents. 
I'hat discipbnc made tlie men of thi' time scorn pri- 
vation, hiut^h at danijer. and exult in their indepen- 
dence. They re,s;arded themselves as kin^s of the 
Hampsliire (Irants, free as the mountain air thev 
breathed. And we are happy to eon.y;ratulate our- 
selves that the diseipUne whicii (Minoi)led them has 
exerted a salutary influence ujion the character of 
their offspring' down to the fourth L;eneration. The 
events of N'ermont's infancy hav(! had mucdi to do 
with the mouldiu'^' of a century of her histor)-. She 
has done well her work at iiome. In her leiiisla- 
tion she has been the soul of integrity. She never 
consummated a scheme of le.tjalized robbery. She 
lias never lield a slave nor countenanced slavery. 
She has led the van in the boldest of reforms. 
Upon her acres the poor man has ever bi-en wel- 
come to a home of comfort, if not of luxury, and 
upon her bosom the futj^itive from any oppression 
has always found an asylum of rest and safety. 
She has also tlone well her work in national coun- 
cils. In national conventions, allhon^h lu>r re|>resent- 
ation has been small, her voice has been respectetl. 
In Congress she has never been weak, but always 



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among the strongest. No Vermonter in all these 
years has had cause to l)lush for the position lieUl 
by his State, either in the House or the Senate of 
the United States, and tliis country could not well 
afford to have missed some of the . work done by 
Vermonters in Washington. Nor could the nation 
span the results of their heroic work upon the battle 
fields of the republic. 

Some of the sister States have been disposed to 
poke fun at Vermont in a good-natured way, be- 
cause she is small and iier family increases no faster. 
True, the State is not large, but she furnishes some 
large opportunities to her people. I understand that 
according to the findings of the census of 1S90 there 
is no other State in the Union in which the aver- 
age man owns so much value in live stock, or tlie 
average cow produces so much butter, or the aver- 
age agriculturist has so much hay in his barn with 
so little hayseed in his hair, as in Vermont. The 
Brattlcboro Phoenix has recently printed the follow- 
ing, among other results, reached by comparing cer- 
tain available statistics of the census : 

Vermont leads thirty-seven States in the average 
value of all farm productions to each person engaged 
in agriculture. 

Vermont produces more than four times as much 
butter to each person engaged in agriculture as the 
average to each such person in the United States. 

The average product of cheese to each farm is 
greater than- in any other State excepting New York. 

'I'he average number of milch cows to a farm is 
greater than in any other State. 

The hay cro]) of Vermont averages more to each 
person engaged in agriculture than the hay crop of 
any other State. 



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\'cnn()iU has live stixk avcraL;iii.u m value $i ro 
more to eac-li jhtsoii ent^an-ed in a^riciill arc lliaii the 
correspomlino- average value of livi' --lock m [\\v 
United States. 

Vermont leads thirty-two States in the averaije 
value of live stock to a farm. 

The avera.y[e annual product of maple su<.i;^ar to 
each farm in Vermont is nearly seven times as much 
as the average to each farm in New Vovk. Nearly 
two-thirds of all the iiiaple su^ar produced in the 
Ignited States is made in \'ermont and New \'ork. 

In the yield of corn, potatoes and f)ther crops 
per acre, Vermont ji^enerally stands at or near the 
head of the list of States. lUit two States had a lart^^er 
yield of potatoes per acre, accordin<T to the annual 
crop report of the department of a?.;:riculture for uSgo. 
For the same year the yield of wheat per acre was 
larii;er in \'ermont than in any other State east of 
the Mississip])i. The yield of buckwheat per acre 
exceeded the yield per acre in Vermont in only one 
State. r>y the tenth census only two States had a 
lars^er yield of oats per acre than Vermont ; onlv 
three Stales a larger yield of corn per acre, and the 
yield per acre of almost every crop cultivated in 
the State was far above the average per acre in the 
United States. Vermont has more than once stood 
at the head of the States in the yield of corn per 
acre. 

Vermont leads thirty-six States in the average 
value of forest |)roducts to each farm, not including 
majile sugar as one of these jiroduct.s, and not 
including the jiroduct of timber lands not belonging 
to farms. 

It appears from these facts that Vermont must \^v 
one of the best localities of the world for farmers. 
And yet the ninnber of sons and daughti'rs in the 
old homestead has increased but little for tui'iitv 
years. 



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I think tlie first report of the census of this year 
showed a decrease of ei.a^hty-two lUTSons in the popu- 
lation of the State during- the decade. I could not 
account for it. 1 knew that Secretary Proctor and 
General Veazey had t>;one to V/ashington, and that 
an humble individual, whom modesty forbids me to 
name, had moved to Brooklyn meantime, but where 
the seventy-nine others had oone to was more than 
I could imagine. According to the latest report 
it is not necessary to account for them, as there has 
been a little increase in the population afttr all. l'>ut 
the reason for the tardiness of increase in population 
is easily fcnnid. It is not that the State gives birth 
to so few children, but because she sends so many 
out to make other families respectable. In proof of 
this statement I quote from another source: 

"The census of 1880 gives the number of natives 
of Vermont living in other States and territories as 
176,000. Thus it will be seen that in 1880 more than 
forty-two per cent, of all living Vermonters resided 
in other parts of the country ; therefore, the natives 
of Vermont, with their children, living outside of the 
State undoubtedly are more in number than the 
present population at home. It is doubtful whether 
any other State in the Union can show such an 
array of native born citizens who have occupied 
high positions m the public service within a single 
decade since the foundation of the government. 
Vermont has furnished one President, three Vice- 
Presidents, two Presidents pro ton. of the Senate, 
three cabinet officers, ten ministers plenipotentiary 
to foreign countries, eight United States consuls at 
foreign stations, eight United States court judges 
and one surgeon-general of the United States And 
at present Vice-President I-. P. Morton ; the Secre- 



larv til' War, Kcdik'ld I'loctoi-. llic Assistant Sk rclary 
of War, CciiLTal I,. A. ('.rant; tlif i^raiid (ominaiKk-r 
of tlic Ciraiul Army of llu- Kcpubru-, W. (>. \'ca/ey, 
are all Wrinoiitrrs ; ami our two senators, Justin 
S. Morrill and Cieor^e 1''. I'alnunuls, arc the peers 
oi tlieni all. I'ew, if any, other States in ihe Union 
have contributed so largely lo llic representation of 
other States in ('on,^rcss as Vermont. The rolls of 
the Senate and the Hi)usc of Representatives since 
1840 contain the names of ten senators and si.xty- 
two niend)ers, representinj; other States, who were 
natives of X'crmont." 

Thus X'crmont is contniually sendinj; out her 
children to bless other reunions. Wherever Ver- 
monters have ,m)ne (and they have j^one everywhere 
between the fri,!.;id zones) tiiey have made their 
mark. Whenever 1 rise with the winL;s of fancy to 
survey their avhievements in the world-wide field, 
1 become exultant. Were it not for a single fact 
1 might on these occasions mount so high as to 
touch heaven's ceridean dome. lUit that fact always 
checks my llight, and reminds me of the well- 
known advue ol the ohi philoso|)her to tin- young 
(jrator, namely — that he would do well to pluck a 
few feathers from the wings of his imagination and 
stick them in the tail of his judgment. When 1 
rise to the contemplation of N'ernionters' operations 
outside their State, L'tah greets my vision, and 1 
am confrontt'd with the chilling recollection that 
Brigham \'oung was born in X'crmont. 'I'o be sure 
he nunle a mark, but it was ugly ami tliscredit- 
able. And yet we arc able to find a few crumbs 
of consolation to heli) us in this difticulty. We do 
not forget that the law passed by the National 



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Congress which gave Mormon polygamy its death 
l)h)W bears a Vermunter's name. Again we rellect 
that Urigiiam Young was born in tlie town of 
Whitingham, very ne'jr the Massachusetts line, where 
breezes from the waste places of the old l>ay State 
are borne up into the fastnesses of the Green 
Mountains. He nuist have breathed much Massa- 
chusetts air. Perhaps he was nourished from a 
Massachusetts dairy, and if so, that might account 
for some of his waywardness. This is not said 
because of any ill-feeling toward our sister State, 
or with any desire to tarnish her fair fame, simply 
because it is imperative that at such a time as this 
we find relief from an unsavory fact at the expense 
of somebody. Furthermore, we are able to console 
ourselves with the thought tiuit had it not been 
for the prestige of being a Vermonter, the Mormon 
leader could not have persuaded half as many 
women to marry him. We treat the case as a 
conspicuous illustration oi falling from grace. Ver- 
monters have sometimes done it But most of the 
sons and daughters sent out by the State have made 
an honorable record. Call the roll of Vermonters 
in any State of the Union and a host will respond 
to your call — not a regiment of knaves anti tatter- 
demalions coming up from the slums to put you 
to shame, but an assemblage of citizens inlluential 
and honored. 

We feel it scarcely possible to e.xas'gerate in 
sounding the i)raises of oui native State. History 
from the beginning presents its |)eoples of renown. 
The sages of Athens, the heri)es of Sparta, the 
Swiss and Tolish patriots, their deeds are unniorlal- 



i/.t.(I , but wc l)liisli iiol when \vc linn lioin an< icnl 
story to our own Statu of modern tiniu. When wc 
retrace the reeortl of her jiulieiary from those who 
are trusted to-tlay bael< to a Kolinison, a C'hipniaii 
ami tlieir coiileinporaries ; when we retrace the r(jll 
of her statesmen from an iMhiumds, a Morrill, a 
Phelps, ami all other honored men who serve us 
now back to our Aliens, Warners, llakers and Chit- 
lendcns, whose (.lust hallows our hillsides ; and when 
we retrace the story of her true sovereigns, the com- 
mon people, from this nii;ht backward an hundred 
years to the few thousands of brave men and women 
who held the independent State between the blue 
Adiromlacks in the West and the While Mountains 
in the I'vast, we are not ashamed lo ])laie the \'er- 
monters by the siele of any other peojile of history. 
The past is crowned with lumor. What the future 
shall be, we do not know. There are conilicts before 
us. iMiemies are covertly and villainously seeking 
to undermine the pillars of righteous government, 
destroy the beneficence of free institutions, antl 
violate the sanctity of Christian homes. lUil what- 
ever the conflicts or their issue may be, we trust 
that the last State flag to be struck before any 
black ensign of unrighteousness, will be the banner 
which bears upon its fokls the picturetl emblem of 
peace, and those two worths so dear to every Christ- 
ian antl patriot heart, Fkkkoom and UMr\. Cod 
bless our native State! Cod grant that in the ages 
to come her sons ami daughters yet unborn may 
guard her liberties and her tame with no less vigil- 
ant care than have iier children of a ceiiturv gone. 



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In introducinjjj the next speaker Mr. Benedict 
said : We who are collected here, although our 
earlier years were spent among the hills and val- 
leys of Vermont, are men of the city, who feel 
the burden and stress of city life. That burden 
it is which has led to the habit of the summer exo- 
dus, which sends our city people to seek health 
and rest in the country among the woods and fields. 
We are fortunate that we, in the pursuit of our 
summer recreation, can betake ourselves so easily 
to Vermont, where we may not only enjoy the 
beauties of her mountains and her streams, but 
may revive our spirits by bringing back again the 
associations of our early days, and treading the 
paths which were once familiar to our youthful feet. 

But even others, though not Vermonters, must 
recognize the truth of the next sentiment which 
1 give you. 

" Vermont — A Paradise for Summer Visitors." 

And for a response to this sentiment I call upon 
one who is not of Vermont origin but from her 
neighbor on the north, our friend Hon. Erastus 
Wiman. 

ERASTUS WIMAN'S SPEECH. 
Erastus Wiman spoke substantially as follows: 

A foreigner, and especially a Britisher, enjoys a 
view widely different tium that of the native Amer- 
ican, of the progress and conditions i)revailing in the 
United States. A Vermonter, especially, is " to the 
manner born," and looks upon his State with an affec- 



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tion which covers its defects, and hardly permits him 
to see its pecidiantit-s. A lOreioiur approaches the 
investijration of conditions that |)revail here in an 
observant and more or less critical condition of mind, 
;iiid il ill' is thoroiiL;l)ly indxied with the ,id van tastes, 
glories and surroundings of such a commonwealth as 
Vermont, his appreciation, and his sense of complete- 
ness are at once advantageous and satisfied. Of all 
the commonwealths that make up the vast constella- 
tion that on this continent so illumine the world, 
Vermont is one of the most interesting, as it is one 
of the most attractive. This is so, because of the 
pec-idiarity of her location; her clean cut history: 
her extreme attractiveness, and, above all, for the 
hearty love of her off-spring. 'I'he present group of 
Vermonters is an indication, that with little notice 
and no i)articular effort, such a delightful assemblage 
comes together to do her honor, (".o where you will 
over the broad continent, Vermonters will be fomid ; 
and always and every time with a hearty love for 
the place that gave them birth ; and, what is more, 
they will always be found thrifty, progressive, honest 
and uniformly successful. .\ liritisher who looks upon 
Vermont sees all the advantages which she posse.s.ses, 
and as she forms so important a link between forty 
per cent, of the British Empire in the North, and 
the great aggregation of English speaking peojile on 
the South, there is an attractiveness about her that, 
next to the people of Vermont themselves, extorts 
admiration and res])ect. It was, perhaps, a great mis- 
take that I'Uhan .Allen was not successful in cajitur- 
ing Canada, as he so ardently desired, and making it 
a part of Vermont. Had he done so, and brought 



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in forty per cent, of the British Empire into the tight 
and little State whose glory we celebrate, he who 
speaks to you to-night would have been a Vermonter, 
and would have gloried in the appellation. 

It has been said that the best crop that Vermont 
had was her summer visitors. 'J'hose who go there, 
and get all that Vermont bestows, never cease to extol 
her virtues. Her summer visitors, too, are largely 
made up of her own sons, and these, coming from 
abroad, with a thrift and success which they have 
achieved, make, indeed, a splendid group, and yield a 
large return for the largess of her generous hospital- 
ity. In return for this, there is no place in the world 
that bestows purer health, that imparts purer air, that 
restores the nervous force, and lays the basis for 
greater achievements, than do the health-giving prop- 
erties that abound in the mountains and lakes of 
Vermont. The attractions of Vermont are not only, 
however, to her own sons— they are beginning to be 
appreciated by all others. No other place is so near 
great aggregations of humanity, is so accessible, and 
possesses the same attractions. 'I'he variety of lake, 
mountain, hill and dale exceeds that of any other 
State in the Union. Especially is this so of the 
excellency of her roads to numerous mountain resorts, 
and of the attractiveness and beauty of the scenery, 
which render them so delightful. The Green Moun- 
tain range, which runs the entire length of the State, 
■possesses a variety and a free prosjiect unequaled 
in the world ; valley and mountain top, hill and dale, 
rival each other in their attractiveness of beauty ; 
such piles upon piles as Mount Mansfield, Camel's 
Hump, Ascutney Mountain, l^quinox, Killington Peak, 



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and Mount Antliony, arc all iiinnaclcs of |)lfasurc, 
not only for tlic lovini^' WTniontcr, hut for all those 
who are tired and weary, who under the pressure of 
tlie winter's work in town and city have l)ecoinc ea,2;er 
to eonininne with Nature, and when recreation is the 
necessity of the hour. It is doul)tfid, if there is, 
anywhere in tiic worhl, a ^roup of mountains so 
accessible, so charniiuL;, and from which such an infin- 
ite variety of views can be had, as from tiiis cata- 
logue of elevations, this sea of mountains. lUit in 
vivid contrast with her mountain scenery, her lakes 
are famous. Who would believe that in this tight 
little State there are no less than three hundred and 
seventy-three lakes and ponds? True, they are not 
all great stretches of water like Lake C'hamplain and 
Lake Memphremagog ; but such i^lacid sheets of water 
as each Vermonter will recall, nestling in the valleys, 
beneath the mountains, thrilling with delight him who 
has the good fortune to view them. AntI what a 
splendid stretch is this Lake Chami^lain ! Have you 
ever realized that it has no less than two lunulretl 
miles of shore Tine, including the main land and the 
islands? What more delightful than its placid waters 
for boating, fishing, and bathing; its good fishing 
almost everywhere; its numerous hoU'ls, so easy to 
be got at, and so delightful when one is there! 
New York, Brooklyn, Boston, Philadelphia, and other 
great aggregations, have, in these lovely sheets of 
water, a health-giving resource difficult to over-esti- 
mate. As to Lake Memphremagog, it is a cpiestion 
whether there is anything in this world prettier. 
Certainly nothing in Switzerland, which has called 
forth the admiration of millions, can excel the beauty 



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of this lovely sheet of water, with shores so verdant, 
bays so beautiful, coasts so rock-bound, and islands so 
forest-clad. What in nature could excel the attract- 
iveness of this ]iaradise ? If you realize that it is one 
hundred and twenty miles lonjj;-, and ten miles wide, 
you see that it is, at once, an ideal spot for the 
yachtsman, the sportsman, and the seeker for health. 
The growth of the leisure class is very great. 
The success in life of the generation that now is, 
means that in the generation that is to come there 
will be an enormous class who will need just such 
places as these lakes in which to spend their sum- 
mers. And it is a blessed thing that it is so. U'here 
the change is so easy, where it is so complete and 
vital, it is a beneficence that Vermont possesses all 
this attractiveness. Vermont will, therefore, constantly 
reap her best crop from the cities of the East and 
the West, because these great accumulations of cities 
make certain the demand for the enjoyment that 
such scenes afford. She can well afford to treat with 
liberality, as she always has with hospitality, those 
who come within her borders. 

The speaker said he recalled with infinite pleas- 
ure a ten days' visit which he had made to the 
State, under the guidance of that excellent Vermonter, 
Col. Robert J. Kimball, who was mainly instrumental 
in bringing the company together to-night ; who had 
taken a group of Canadian friends through these 
beautiful scenes, the memory of which would live 
as long as the guests lived. 

But there is another class of visitors to Vermont 
that in a certain sense, the speaker said, he repre- 
sented, viz : the large additions to the population of 



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that Slalc from ("anada. W'liilf the j^dod crop of 
simiiiKT visitors cuiiies from llic Ivisl, Soulli and West, 
ami all arc most heartily welcomed, there was another 
steaily trend of I'reneli C'anvidians from the North, 
whose business in X'erniont was just as essential, and 
who were just as prohtablc as visitors from other 
re.^ions. The strange economic chans^es which Ver- 
mont had iL^one through, in the abantlonment of her 
farms, anil in the decreasing' a,L;ricultin"al outjiul, were 
a most interesting study to her children. The "grad- 
ual acquirement, by the Irish laborer, of some of the 
best producing properties in the State had made 
some j)rogress, but it remained for the French ("ana- 
(.lian to take permanent possession. Like the in- 
vasion from the North in the time of the Roman 
I'hnpire, from this direction comes a new element 
that will in time work a wonderful revolution in this 
the most V'ankee of States. The I'rench Canadians, 
to-day, are the most picturescjue nation on the con- 
tinent. They are, at the same time, among the most 
thrifty, the most industrious, anti the most contenteel. 
'I'he exodus of the l'"rench Canadian into a State 
needing just such help as Vermont, will certainly be 
fruitful of the best conseiiueiices. I'he abandcjned 
farms will gradually be taken up, and in the vil- 
lages the C'anadian will displace the (icrman and the 
Irishman, as in New England these have tlisplaced 
the workmen in the manufactories. The best test of 
the growth of the French Canadian in New Eng- 
land is found in the fact that at the new stations 
of the railways the dual language is found to be 
necessary, and that the legends in and arouml the 
stations are found in French as well as English. 



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Vermont may view with complacency the growth of 
this class, because they will contribute vastly to her 
riches. The Vermonters of the early day have dis- 
appeared ; the Irishman tiiat succeeded tliem is 
stepping aside in the steady course of assimilation 
which is going on in this country ; but the French 
Canadian comes in his place, and with a distinctive 
language, a distinctive religion, and witli character- 
istics pecuHar to himself, will occui)y a place in the 
future of great importance on this continent. One 
thing will give him prominence more than anything 
else, and that is the marvelous fecundity which the 
French Canadians have exhibited. Tlie census figures 
show that in the last ten years there has been little 
or no increase in Vermont. The decade that we are 
now entering will tell a different story, and unless 
the blight in New England, whicii has hitherto pre- 
vented growth in population, should intervene, the 
results of the next census will be vastly different. 
The fecundity of the French Canadian is shown by 
the estimate of Premier Mercier, who states that had 
the United States increased with the same rapidity 
as French Canada, since the cession of 1770, the 
[)()pulation of the United States to-day would have 
been one hundred miUions, instead of sixty-four 
millions. With a constant increase in numbers, with 
industry, economy and contentment, a basis will 
be laid by the French Canadian among the work- 
ing people of Vermont, that will contribute largely 
to her progress and glory. 

' A great change impends in the economic condi- 
tions that prevail in the United States. The cities 
are filling u[) fast, and the growth of consumptive 



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tk'in.Mul for tooci products far exceeds tlie iiK rease 
in iheii' p iml ml i on. The rush to I he West is 
checked, ami iniim^iation is sctlinL; m from tlu- 
Rocky Mountains and to the I'lasl. I'he uicieasetl 
necessity foi' ch)ser cultivation will make States like 
N'ermonl assume a new phase, and on her hillsides 
and in her valleys will in time develo|) a condition 
of cultivation similar to that which jn-evails in the 
densely populateil portions of France, l5elt,Mum, and 
especially Switzerland. The hi.L:.h price of ])r()duce, 
the increased cost of living, the lessened number of 
|)roducers in the country as compared with consum- 
ers in the cities and towns, all point in the tlirec- 
tion of ;in increase of a,L;ricullural effort in the Eastern 
States of very threat |:)romise. No better class to 
accomplish this purpose can be found than the P'rench 
Canadians ; no better held for operations than Ver- 
mont ; and no better market than that which is 
offered by the .^reat a;4i;re,L;ati<)ns of the cities of 
the sea, in wdiich Brooklyn forms so distinj^uished a 
part. Thus a new future for Vermont opens up. in 
a hundred years she has .^rown enormously, and a 
hundred years has alfordeil opportunitv to illustrate, 
all over the world, the j^reatness of her sons ; Inn. 
prosperity yet awaits her, in this exodus from the 
North, of very threat importance. 

Mr. W'iman said that he could not resmne his seal 
without payinij tribute to the public worth of the 
representatives of Vermont in the i)olitics of the coim- 
try. He recalled with very ^reat j^leasure the .l^^oocI 
services rentlered by .\Ii'. Phelps, the late Minister 
to EnirJand — the splendid administration which was 
being given to the War Department by Secretary 

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Proctor, — the long and honored period of services 
by Senator Morrill, and, especially, the high position 
as a statesman and economist, so worthily attained 
by Senator Edmunds. 

Mr. Benedict, in introducing the next speaker, 
said : 

Gentlkmen — We had hoped to have with 
us our friend Rev. A. J. Hough, the chaplain of 
the House, but he has been prevented from 
attending. He has, however, sent us a poem pre- 
pared for the occasion, which will now be read to 
you by Prof. Braiiierd Kellogg, of the Polytechnic 
Institute. , 

A GREEN MOUNTAIN SONG. 



Bv Rev. Alfred J. Hough, Montpelier, Vt. 



Here's a song of our green mountains, 

Fair, and loved and honored State, 
Of her valleys and her fountains. 

And her sons who made her great. 
Bright will shine her deeds in story, 

Ever more her fame will ring. 
Covered is her flag with glory, 

And her praises will we sing. 

Burgoyne met his first disaster 
At her iiands, and stood bereft 

Of all hope, while the Vermonters 
Hung, '' a dark cloud on his left." 

Scorning foes, and courting dangers, 
Ready both to do and dare, 



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Daslu'd tin- brave Circcii Mountain Rany^crs 

SiuUk'nlv upon his rear. 
IH'nniii'^ton rrvcals the couraijje 

( )nr Ciiccn iMoiinlain lioys disjilay, 
WluTi' thcv won from forcijj;n soldiers 
Two pilflied battles in one day. 

At the fort TiconderoiLia, ere Vermont 

IJecame a State, 
('.lowed the passion of the spirit 

'I'hat has made her strong and great, 
r.v the Continental Congress, in the 

(ireat Jehovah's name, 
Ethan Allen there demanded swift 

Surrcndi'r, and it came. 
Independent in her bearing, she is not 

Subdued or bought, 
As New York can well remember, 

And New Hampshire, when they sought 
In the stormy past to stamp her • 

With the honored names they bore. 
Now they glory in her freedom, and 

She loves them more and more 

Since her advent to the ITnion, 

just a hundred years ago, 
See her history, it is lying, stainless 

As her driven snow. 
Never slave was born within her. 

Never fugitive was spurned 
In the dark days from her borders 

\m\ to slavery returned. 

When one sought a slave's surrender, 

This decisive answer came : 
Your demand must lie unhonored. 

For God has a prior claim." 
Freedom's soul is in the sighing 

Of her pines o'er mountains green, 



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And the smile of peace is lying 
On her vales that sweep between. 

Soft the skies that bend above her, , 
Dear the homes that round her cling. 

Old Vermont we love, we love her. 
And her praises will we sing. 

Small she is, a bird can cross her 

Without resting, in its flight, 
But she has a compensation in 

The grandeur of her height 
Standing up amidst the nation, 

As once stood the kingly Saul, 
In the presence of the people, head 

And shoulders over all. 
Greece was small, and so was Britain, 

But they rose to sovereign sway. 
As Vermont has slowly risen to 

The place she holds to-day. 

Larger States may turn to hail her 

As she rounds her hundredth year, 
But for purity and honor she is 

Still without a peer. 
And this sweet assurance cheers her, 

That her sons and daughters stand, 
Not the least among the noblest in 

Those States all through the land. 
Where true merit is demanded. 

Where integrity is crowned. 
Where truth conquers, single-handed, 

There Vermont is- always found. 

To the Cabinet she enters, and 

Would place her candidate 
In the first seat of the nation 

Were she but a doubtful State. 
In the Senate she has spoken, still 

Is speaking, and her word. 



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Calm, niajcslic, full of wisdom, 
Carries wciyiit wiieiiever lieard. 

On the bench and in tlie market 
Pure as flame lier actions i^low, 

And what battle- luM beheld her 
I'lirn her back upon t lie foe? 

l''or the nation knows that ever 

In the day of blood and tears 
She can count upon the valor of 

Her hardy Mountaineers ; 
That in answer to tin* bui^le, forth 

I'rom mountain and from li'len 
Will be marching' to the battle fifty 

'I'housand armed men. 
As they marched — well, all men 

Know it, for this fact in history shines, 
That Vermont is .ti,ood at jilowint;- 

Stony lands and rebel lines." 
Sound the busj^le, she will hear it. 

And awake to mis^hty deeds. 
Lift the banner, she will cheer it, 

And then follow where it leads. 

It's the best State in the Union 

For the cure of that distress 
Which a sitjht of jn'ople die of. 

Known as chronic laziness. 
For her summer is too fleeting for 

A man to sit at ease, 
.\ml her winter such a wild one 

That he's bound to work or freeze. 
Stamped upon her vales and mountains, 

Clearly seen by every eye. 
Are these words of solemn import — 

You must either dig or die. 

Was there ever breathed from organ. 
Or rehearsed in poet's lines, 



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Any music like the sighing of 

The winds among her pines ? 
Any strain by spirit chanted 

Through a night of happy dreams, 
That surpassed the measures woven 

By the flowing of her streams ? 
There's the spirit of contentment 

In the lowing of her herds, 
There's a thrill of heavenly rapture 

In the singing of her birds. 
And sublime as shout of victors, 

When their foes, defeated, fly. 
Is the answer of her mountains 

To the thunders of the sky. 

Were there ever laid on canvas 

For the love of fame or gold. 
Hues like those which clothe her 

Maples when the year is growing old ? 
Softer lights and richer shadows float 

Before her children's eyes 
'I'han have swept the wolds and waters 

Underneath Italian skies. 
Who shall paint her mountains rising 

Up like towers to greet the sun ? 
Or the streams that from their summits 

To their bases leap and run ? 
Who shall tell the strange enchantment 

Of her resurrection hours. 
When the springtide rises o'er her 

Changing snowdrifts into flowers' 
When the woods all bare at sunset 

Greet the morrow's tender dawn, 
Like a troop of pleasure seekers 

With their summer garments on ? 
Angels drifting to her valleys, ere 

Her Indian summer dies. 
Might still dream that they were 

Standing in the midst of Paradise. 



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Horses? wrll, tr<»t "Hi th.it Mori^an, 

Hitch litT up, ;iiul i-lcar tlic way. 
Soc that uail ? She'll kcfj) it steady 

Through the loiii^esl suninur thiy, 
Swini;' a buj^'.ny o'er the moiiiUaiiis, 

Reins drawn tit^ht or lyin^' slack, 
Turn at nightfall to the stables, 

Not a wet hair on her back. 
Little, is she? well, each finely moulded. 

Supple, nervous limb 
Is just like the State that raised" 

Her, crowded full of .yo and vim. 
Anil its safe to say for traveling 

Over those delightful hills, 
Nothing better than the Morgan 

Kver stood between two Idls. 

Maple Sugar? She supplies it, itn" 

The east and western home, 
Sweeter than the nectar hidden 

In the purest honeycoud). 
Oh, the tinkle of the droijping 

Of the sap into the pails, 
Was there ever such fantastic 

Music borne upon the gales? 
Was there ever sight more jolly 

Seen b\- mortals here below. 
Than a group of lads and lasses 

Eating sugar upon snow ? 

There's her butter! just 

Look at it ! N'ellow as her golden rod I 
Colored ? Ves, with colors Nature 

Mi.xed up with her virgin soil ! 
Bring that Jersey ! Milk a pail full. 

And the cream at once wdl rise 
'I'o the surface, rich and yellow, 

While you look, before your eyes. 



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Then the women are such marvels, 

Made of such superior parts, 
That tlie butter when they touch it 

Takes the flavor of their hearts. 
Every time they turn it over, knead 

It up or toss it round, 
Something seems to make it worth 

Another cent or two a pound. 
See it ready for the market, wrapped 

In snow-white linen bands, 
And you'll say that it was moulded 

By the daintiest of hands. 

At the Century's shining portal fair 

Vermont is standing now. 
There is grace in all her moulding, 

There is glory on her brow. 
The aromas of the forest, from her 

Flowing garments rise. 
Clear as lakes becalmed in sunlight is 

The shinmg of her eyes. 
She extends a maple garland in 

Her right hand, strong and fair. 
As a sign of salutation to her children 

Everywhere, 
And they rise responsive round her, and 

The tender symbol heed ; 
With their benedictions crown her, 

x^nd with us exclaim —" Cod speed." 

Mr. Benedict said : 

Gentleman — Our exercises would not be com- 
plete if we were to omit mention of the Press. 

I give you as a final sentiment " The Vermont 
Press," and I call upon Mr. Hamilton Ormsbee 
to respond. 



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HAMILTON ORMSBEE'S SPEhCH. 

\'()ur C'oinniillcc camiot luive expected lioiii me 
any history or eult)gy ol the Vermont press, such 
as the siibjeet deserves from more familiar and more 
able hands. My serviie upon the ne\vspa|)ers of 
Vermont was h)ni; enough to show me that they 
have a record for service to the best interests of 
their Slate which should be recited as a part of the 
State's history, but which should be told from the 
standpoint of loni; ami intimate accpiaintance. lUit 
there is another side of the subject upon which it 
would \)v unL;racious, in sucli a company as this, 
not to say a word. 'I'hat is the gratitude which 
\'ermonters far frcjni the shadow of their native 
peaks feel towaril the editors who stay at home. 
What " Kaijle" scream be never so ehxpiently ; what 
"Sun," though it shine for all; what "Tribune," on its 
tower of judgment, can com[;are in interest for the 
son of Vermont with those little papers which the 
postman brings us on l''riday afternoon? How eagerly 
we read them, from the column of personals upon 
the fourth page backward to the poem at the begin- 
ning of the first. It matters not whether it is the 
"Rutland Herald," the " P.urlington Free I'res.s," the 
"St. Albans Messenger," the "M()nl|)elier Watchman," 
the "St. lohnsbury Caletlonian," the " Henninglon 
Banner," the "Newport K.xpress," the Windsor or 
Poultney or Manchester "Journal," the "Woodstock 
Standard," the " Middlebury Register," the " Marre 
Enterprise," the " Vergennes Vermonter," the " Kan- 
(.lolph Herald and News." the " l>rattleboro Reformer" 
or " i'lKcni.x," the " l''air Haven l*'.ra," the " Rellows 



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Falls Times," the '' r)rand()n Union "or the " London- 
derry Sifter" — if that vivacious little journal is still 
sifting — we read them from editorials to advertise- 
ments. 

Metropolitan journalists are somewhat given, 1 be- 
lieve, to making merry over the items about the 
reshingling of John Smith's barn or about Widow 
Conant's rheumatism. But how much they mean to 
those of us who know John and who remember Mrs. 
Conant's kindly face with its big rimmed glasses. 
There is also a metropolitan impression that a Ver- 
mont printing office is — well, that it is not exactly a 
Colorado silver mine. A somewhat varied observation 
convinces me that the Vermont editor and his city 
brother stand upon a substantial and glorious equal- 
ity in that respect. Journalists nowhere become mil- 
lionaires, except occasionally by marriage on the 
other side of the East river. But neither do they, 
in Vermont any more than in New York city, fail 
to enjoy the substantial blessings of life. 1 presume 
there may be in Vermont a fi^w editors who have 
taken pay for subscriptions in cordwood or eggs, 
but nobody accuses the Vermont editor of storing 
his cordwood inside his skull, or using his addled 
eggs to bespatter his neighbors' reputations with. 
Then more power to the elbow of the Vermont 
editor ! May his subscription list wax fat and never 
kick ! He knows his public, he serves it faithfully, 
■and he deserves well of it, especially of that part 
of it far from home, to whom he is village post- 
office, tavern and sewing society rolled into one. 



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Mr. luMicdict ilisniisscd the coinpaii)- as follows: 
GlCN'ILKMKN -This l)rint^s to a close the exer- 
cises of this occasion. 1 con<^iatulatc you all that 
it has proved so pleasant and so successful, and I 
hope that a year from this time we all and many 
others may have the [)leasure of a second and an 
equally deliL:jhtful meetinjjf. 



BY-LAWS 

OF THE 

Orooklyr^ Oociety of V srrr^oriters. 



The Committee appointed to present plans for 
a permanent organization made their report and 
recommended the following By-Laws, which were 
adopted : 

Article i. Tliis Society shall be called "The 
Brooklyn Society of Vermontkrs," and its object 
shall be the social improvement of its members and 
a more cordial union of interest and sympathy among 
Vermonters who reside in Brooklyn or its vicinity. 

Art. 2. The officers of the Society shall be a 
President, a Vice-President, a Secretary, and a Treas- 
urer. There shall also be an Executive Committee 
consisting of the above named officers, cx-officio, 
and five other persons. 

Art. 3. The President shall preside at all meet- 
ings of the Society, and shall perform such other 
duties as appropriately belong to such office. 

AR'r. 4. The Vice-President shall perform the duties 
of the President during tlie al)sencc of thrtt officer. 

Art. 5. The Secretary shall keep a faithful record 
of all the meetings of the Society, attend to cor- 
respondence, and notify the members of all meet- 
ings and special assessments, if any. At the request 



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ol the I'rcsidi'iU or tlic I'lxcciitivc- ("(.mmitl cc. Ik- 
may provide l)o()ks, blanks and stat ioiicrv for his 
own list' as Secretary, and for the Society. He 
shall .dso keep a suitable book of record, in which 
shall be recorded the names of all mend)ers of the 
Society, their birthplace, occupation, and present 
place of residence, which shall be accessible to all 
members of the Society. 

Ari'. 6. The Treasurer shall collect all dues, and 
attend to the disbursi-ments of the money of tiie 
Society, paying only those bills which are autlited 
by the Ivxecuti ve ("ommitlee, and keeiiin^- vouchers 
for the same; and he shall present to the Society 
a full report of the receijHs and expenditures at the 
annual meetinir, and ofteiu-r if called upon by the 
K.xe(-utive Committee. 

Akr. 7. The Executive Committee shall make 
arranijements for all meetin.trs or entertainments of 
the Society, and have plenary powers to act in the 
interim of business meetinsrs. The President, Vice- 
President, Secretary, and Treasurer shall be cx-officio 
members of the Executive, and a majority thereof 
shall constitute a quorum to do business. 

Aur. S. The officers and the Executive Commit- 
tee shall be elected by ballot, and a jilurality shall 
elect. They shall hold office for one year, and 
until their successors are elected. 

Art. 9. The reticular annual meetino- of the Soci- 
ety shall be held on the second W'l'dnesday in [an- 
uary for the election of officers and any other 
business that may ( omc before it ; if the election 



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is not held on that day it may lie ordered by the 
ICxecutive Committee, and when so ordered, a week's 
notice shall be given to each member of the Society. 
Special meetings may be held at any time by order 
of the Executive Committee. 

Art. io. The annual festival shall be held on 
March 4th, or such other time as the Executive 
Committee may designate. 

Art. n. The members of this Society shall con- 
sist of gentlemen who were born in Vermont, and 
their sons, and such other gentlemen as, by resi- 
dence and association, claim to be Vermonters, resid- 
ing in Brooklyn or vicinity, and who shall have 
l^een recommended by the Executive Committee, 
upon their signing the Constitution and By-Laws 
and paying the admission fee. 

Art. 12. The Executive Committee may, by the 
concurring votes of two-thirds of all its members, 
suspend any member from enjoying the privileges of 
the Society who may be guilty of gross misbehavior, 
or scandalous or dishonest conduct. 

Art. 13. The regular initiation fee shall be two 
dollars, which sum shall be invariably paid to the 
Treasurer by each member before he shall be enti- 
tled to the privileges of membership ; and there 
shall thereafter be an annual assessment of one 
dollar. 

Art. 14. These By-Laws may be amended at the 
regular annual meeting, provided the proposed amend- 
ment shall have been submitted at-- least thirty days 
previously. 



/Aenr^bers of tl^e Society. 



The followini^ is a list of the members of the 
l^i'ooklyii Society of Wrmt)iitei's, who became mem- 
bers at its first meetiiii;", on March 4, 1891, with 
the name of the Vermont town where tliey were 
born, or have Hved for such a time as to become 
Vermonters in spirit. 

GKORCE i:. Ai;i;OT r, liiooklicld. Orai)};c Co. 

ALONZO ALFORD, St. Albans, !• rankliii Co. 

JOHN C. ALLEN, Wallingfoid, Rutland Co. 

JOHN J. ALLEN, Burlington, Chittenden Co. 

RUEUS C. Al^LEN, Wallingford, Rutland Co. 

VV. E. ANDREW.S, Waitsfkld, Washington Co. 

C. G. ATWOOD, Townshend, Windham Co. 

JOSERH M. BABCOCK, Danville, Caledonia Co. 

L. K. BARNES, Brooklyn. 

J. A. BARRETT, Woodstock, Windsor Co. 

J. HYATT BREWER, West Randolph. Orange Co. 

B. L. BENEDICT, Burlington, Chittenden Co. 

ROBER r D. BENEJ)ICT, Burlington, Chittenden Co. 

THOMAS BISHOP. St. Johnsbury, Caledonia Co. 

JAMES BRADY, Bellows Falls, Windham Co. 

FRANK M. BRADY, Brooklyn 

WH.LIAM BRINSNLVH), lUirlington, Chittenden Co. 

ALBERT B. CHANDLER, Rando!i)h, Orange Co. 

ALBERT E. CHANDLER, Brooklyn. 

FRANK H. CHANDLER, Randolph, Orange Co. 

FRANK W. CHANDLER, Brooklyn. 

W.M. 11. COTTON, Bradford, Orange Co. 

CHARLES H. CUT TING. 

BENJAMIN H. DEWEY, Georgia, Franklin Co. 

MARTIN A. DEWEY, Waterbury, Washington Co. 

FRANCIS M. E1)(;ERT0N, IVniilney, Rutland County. 



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GEORGE FOLLETT, East Berkshire, Franklin Co. 

A. W. FOLLETT, East Berkshire, Franklin Co. 

EDGAR A. FOLLETT, East Berkshire, Franklin Co. 

Rkv. timothy p. FROST, Fairlee, Orange Co. 

JOHN F. HENRY, Waterbury, Washington Co. 

ABEL T. HOWARD, Hartford, Windsor Co. 

OMRI F. HIBBARD, 

CHARLES A. HOYT, Burlington, Chittenden Co. 

HENRY E. HUTCHINSON, Windsor, Windsor Co. 

JESSE JOHNSON, Bradford, Orange Co. 

GEORGE H. KELLEY, Chester, Windsor County. 

BRAINERD KELLOGG, 

ROBERT J. KIMBALL, Randolph, Orange Co. 

WM. EUGENE KIMBALL, Brooklyn. 

JOHN G. LOVELY, 

W. C. LOW, Bradford, Orange Co. 

JOHN G. MARSHALL, St. Albans, Franklin Co. 

HENRY C. MATTHEWS, Granby, Esse.\ Co. 

RICHARD A. NEWHALL, Pittsfield, Rutland Co. 

THEOBHILUS OLENA, Grand Isle Co. 

HAMILTON ORMSBEE, Rutland, Rutland Co. 

RICHARD I. ITERSON, Charlotte, Chittenden Co. 

CHAS. POWERS, Sutton, Caledonia Co. 

JAS. H. PLATT, Burlington, Chittenden Co. 

E. A. PRATT. 

WILLIAM M. RAMSDELL. Montpelier, Washington Co. 

WM. C. SPELMAN, Manchester, Bennington Co. 

N. T. SPRAGUE, Mount Holly, Rutland Co. 

II. R. STEELE, 

SANFORD H. STEELE, 

CHAS. A. TINKER, St. Albans, Franklin Co. 

ARTHUR L. TINKER, St. Albans. Franklin Co. 

LEANDER TITUS, Wilmington, Windham Co. 

HENRI TITUS, Wilmington, Windham Co., 

J. C. TURK. 

PRESCOTT L. WATSON, Wilmington, Windham Co. 

WALTER P.WHEELER, Brandon, Rutland Co. 

GEORGE A. WHITE, Shelburne, Chittenden Co. 



